“bc liberals, christy clark,
shift to right”
Type those words into your nearest Google Search Engine, and
immediately you will get a number of media releases and story titles pop
up.
If you weren’t already aware, here’s one thing you should know. With the search engines -- like Google, Bing,
Yahoo, etc -- things don’t just ‘pop up’ without there being the written word. And for there to be the written word, there
has to be change, or a spark of something different, being talked about and
discussed.
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| BC Premier Clark, with Prime Minister Stephen Harper |
For example, the Globe and Mail on January 15th had a story headlined,
“Clark flirtation with the right predictable, dangerous”.
A couple days earlier a story came out in the Vancouver Sun; “Hockey game helps Clark punctuate a
right-wing shift”
Three days ago the Globe and Mail had another story that came up using
the same search ingredients … “For BC's
Liberal Premier, Harper conservatism the key
to success”
Here’s another one, this time from Yahoo News Canada … “Stephen Harper helps BC's Christy Clark appear more conservative”
What I see in those headlines is shifting values, shifting beliefs, and
shifting principles. I have to say, given
that; I would find it a bit disconcerting to be a member of the BC Liberal Party
right now. After all how would you know,
from one week to the next, what direction the party is taking?
When the BC Liberals emerged from the political desert, led by Gordon
Wilson, they seemed to have a tilt to the lift of the political spectrum. When Gordon Campbell ousted Wilson from the leadership
of the party, the Liberals took a swing in the other direction, and for several
years became what many would consider to be a fiscally conservative party and government.
